Is that ship still stuck?

Re:Is that ship still stuck? by ultrarunner on Friday March 26, 2021 @02:36AM (#26589345)

Interestingly enough, the Wikipedia page for this ship says it does have two 2500kW bow thrusters. I imagine if they were worth much in this situation we wouldn’t be talking about them, though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ever_Given

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Re:Is that ship still stuck? by tim333 on Friday March 26, 2021 @05:04AM (#26590071)

Looking it up a 2500kW bow thruster gives a thrust of about 30 tons (https://www.thrustmaster.net/tunnel-thrusters/electric-motor...)

which is not going to do much here. It seems the trouble with a lot of solutions - the tugs can probably tug with a force of something like 600 tons combined but the ship weights 220,000 tons which is like putting a force of 5kg on a 2 ton car which is stuck. Probably not going to budge it.

Really you want something which will shove it with a force maybe 10% of the weight, say 20,000 tons but there don't seem to be many of those lying around.

I wondered if they tied a cable from the ship to one of the other large ships nearby and fired up the main engines if that could do something?

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Re:Is that ship still stuck? by ultrarunner on Friday March 26, 2021 @07:36PM (#26598291)

I imagine they could snap the cable, but that doesn't seem very useful.

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Re:Is that ship still stuck? by TylerE on Friday March 26, 2021 @03:00AM (#26589474)

For fluid dynamic reasons those sort of thrusters are only effective when the ship is stationary

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Re:Is that ship still stuck? by occamrazor on Friday March 26, 2021 @08:34AM (#26591301)

Well, at the moment the ship is _very_ stationary.

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